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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Alain <al...@yahoo.com> on 2013/08/06 19:07:51 UTC
Having a problem using PDFParser
Hi all,
I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
PrintService[] ps =
PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
if (ps.length == 0) {
throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
}
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
parser.parse();
job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
job.print();
My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
Best Regards
Alain
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Alain <al...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Maruan,
the PDF is not written to the client machine, i have in a byte array "pdfDoc" which is downloaded from the server.
this is all being done in an applet.
it all works fine, expect when an image PDF file is created with a certain scanner HP scanjet 8500.
Thanks
Alain
________________________________
From: Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org; Alain <al...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Hi,
loading a PDF should be done using PDDocument.load().
Take a look at java/org/apache/pdfbox/PrintPDF.java as a sample.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 06.08.2013 um 19:07 schrieb Alain <al...@yahoo.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>
>
>
> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> PrintService[] ps =
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
> if (ps.length == 0) {
> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
> }
>
> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>
> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
> parser.parse();
> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
> job.print();
>
>
> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>
> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>
> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>
> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
>
> Best Regards
> Alain
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>.
Hi,
loading a PDF should be done using PDDocument.load().
Take a look at java/org/apache/pdfbox/PrintPDF.java as a sample.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 06.08.2013 um 19:07 schrieb Alain <al...@yahoo.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>
>
>
> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> PrintService[] ps =
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
> if (ps.length == 0) {
> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
> }
>
> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>
> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
> parser.parse();
> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
> job.print();
>
>
> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>
> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>
> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>
> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
>
> Best Regards
> Alain
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Am 06.08.2013 21:05, schrieb Alain:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> No, no apparent complaints, the code is not throwing any exceptions.
>
> I only get a list of printers available which i am displaying in my code as expected.
OK, so maybe you should try the PDFBox PDFReader as described here [1] and see
if there are any console logs.
You might use the PDFBox PDFDebugger [1] to have a look at the internals of
your pdfs to find out which encoding is used.
Or, last but not least, upload both pdfs in question to some share hoster or
something similar, so that we can have a look ...
BTW: Which version of PDFBox are you using?
> Best Regards
> Alain
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 06.08.2013 19:07, schrieb Alain:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
>> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>>
>>
>>
>> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
>> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
>> PrintService[] ps =
>> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
>> if (ps.length == 0) {
>> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
>> }
>>
>> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
>> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>>
>> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
>> parser.parse();
>> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
>> job.print();
>>
>>
>> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>>
>> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
>> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>>
>> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
> I guess it depends on the used image encoding (CCITT, DCT, JBIG2, JPX etc.),
> some are well supported others are not. Do you get some console log output
> (complains about unsupported filters)?
>
>> Best Regards
>> Alain
>
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
[1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Alain <al...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Andreas,
No, no apparent complaints, the code is not throwing any exceptions.
I only get a list of printers available which i am displaying in my code as expected.
Best Regards
Alain
________________________________
From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Hi,
Am 06.08.2013 19:07, schrieb Alain:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>
>
>
> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> PrintService[] ps =
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
> if (ps.length == 0) {
> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
> }
>
> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>
> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
> parser.parse();
> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
> job.print();
>
>
> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>
> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>
> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>
> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
I guess it depends on the used image encoding (CCITT, DCT, JBIG2, JPX etc.),
some are well supported others are not. Do you get some console log output
(complains about unsupported filters)?
> Best Regards
> Alain
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Alain <al...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Andreas,
in using PDFDebugger (great tool BTW) i found the following.
now please correct me if i'm looking at the wrong data,
i have found the filter used for the working PDF file is to be DCTDecode
and for the PDF files not working correctly, i have found a filter of jpxdecode and jbig2decode
i am using a fresh download of 1.8.2
Thanks
Alain
________________________________
From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Hi,
Am 06.08.2013 19:07, schrieb Alain:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>
>
>
> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> PrintService[] ps =
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
> if (ps.length == 0) {
> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
> }
>
> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>
> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
> parser.parse();
> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
> job.print();
>
>
> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>
> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>
> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>
> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
I guess it depends on the used image encoding (CCITT, DCT, JBIG2, JPX etc.),
some are well supported others are not. Do you get some console log output
(complains about unsupported filters)?
> Best Regards
> Alain
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
Re: Having a problem using PDFParser
Posted by Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Hi,
Am 06.08.2013 19:07, schrieb Alain:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client and i'm using the PDFParser
> class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far.
>
>
>
> DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE;
> PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> PrintService[] ps =
> PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts);
> if (ps.length == 0) {
> throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found");
> }
>
> PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> job.setPrintService(ps[8]);
>
> PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc));
> parser.parse();
> job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument());
> job.print();
>
>
> My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page printed is blank.
>
> What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image does display on the print out.
> If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank.
>
> I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 file and the other a 1.4
>
> Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking..
I guess it depends on the used image encoding (CCITT, DCT, JBIG2, JPX etc.),
some are well supported others are not. Do you get some console log output
(complains about unsupported filters)?
> Best Regards
> Alain
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler